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January 29, 2013 – Guadalajara One Well, the last week has been extremely eventful and not without its stresses. Last Monday night, I was off with my buddy Bob playing Texas Holdem with nine other like-minded snowbirds.  Bob won, again, but that’s another story.  Whilst I was there, my left hearing aid started acting up, […]

January 16, 2013 – In The Trenches Humanitarian aid is a pretty big deal amongst the long-stay snowbirds (is that a redundancy?) in most places, and that’s certainly the case here!  Our friends Cheryl and Kelly have been performing good works down here for three or four years, and this year Deb and I brought

January 12, 2013 – La Manzanilla Deb and I were muttering to each other a few days ago that we were long overdue for an adventure.  We were chatting idly about taking a bus to La Manzanilla, which is a pretty little town about 30 minutes up the coast, when our friends Cheryl and Kelly

January 5, 2013 – Melaque Bay Our beach here is quite nice, and it is framed by rocky headlands to make a very pretty bay.  The north end of the bay also has a malecon (seaside walkway), which is backed by steep hills and/or cliffs, and is therefore completely undeveloped.  We have discovered that it

January 3, 2013 – The Birthday Boys (Steve, Jesus, and 2013) December 23 is my birthday, and about a week before, we had discovered a beachside terrace restaurant that has live music in the evenings.  December 23 was listed as Blues Night, which is my favorite, so we planned to spend a quiet evening together

December 22, 2012 – The Old Men and The Sea I’ve been wanting to go out fishing ever since we got here, but the boys went out the day we arrived here, and I had to wait for the next time around.  That’s today!  Four of us from the villa (Bob, Joe, Terry, and yours

December 19, 2012 – An Unexpected Journey So there we were, sitting around minding our own business, when Kelly and Cheryl called up wanting to know if we would like to go on a driving adventure northwards.  After a millisecond to consider it, we said “yes!” and an hour later we were all packed up

December 15, 2012 – Horseshoes on the Beach We’ve had invites several times to go a-horseshoeing, but we’ve just been too darn busy nest-building.  But now we’re not, so it’s time to see what this is all about.  Deb is off doing Pilates but intends to join up as soon as she’s done, so I

December 13, 2012 – Paint Your Alligator Deb has heard about another festival/event/happening that is taking place on Tuesday night down at the zocalo (central park with gazebo) in Villa Obregon, an adjoining town east of Melaque.  It appears to be another part of the Festival of Guadalupe, which pretty much fills up the first

December 11, 2012 – Snake Patrol Another beautiful day in the neighbourhood, and we’re off to Barra de Navidad, a beach community just 2 km down the beach, 5 km by road.  The plan is to meet up with our friends Jack and Irma and to mooch around Barra for the day.  We decided to